Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-26
DAILY HERALD.
PASADENA PROGRESS.
Industrial Movements OF
Every Kind.
A METROPOLIS OF ITSELF.
A Scene of Activity in Every De-
partment of Human Industry
and Enterprise.
PASADENA PROGRESS.
A METROPOLIS OF ITSELF

ton, without decent roaoS VI "PPio
without every thing to make home at
4ractiye and desirable, can enter into
proper contemplation of the Pasadena OF
to-day. Then the north and east por-
tion of the tract now occupied by the
City of Pasadena was grasshopper
pasture of ample proportions and very
thickly inhabited. For two years the
settlers saw their vineyards and orchards
stripped of every green thing, and, in
desperation, set fire to the dry alfilerilia
that clothed the plain, in order to get
rid of these destructive insects. For
this act of self.preservation the perpe-
TRAITORS were arrested, and suffered the
penalty of the law in such cases made
and provided.
Then a sale was made of about 800
acres. in ten-acre lots, on the east side
of the tract, at $50 per acre, and the new
settlers, mainly from Iowa and Utah,
took their stand on picket duty against
the devastating choppers" This was
the close of the plague against these IN
sects. The land was all plowed, bury
ing the eggs of the hoppers too deep for
a resurrection, aud chickens and turkeys
were employed 10 capture such as came
from abroad.
The result was satisfactory and per.
manent; the insects were annihilated,
and the musketoe nets that had hereto
fore enveloped the orange, the lemon
and lime in the old settlement were re-
moved and laid to rest after an honored
career of usefulness. With each sue.
ceeding year these ineects were driven
back by the plow and domestic fowls
till the great beautiful plain, six miles
square, on which Pasadena now stands,
il as free from the pests as the streets
of New York. The struggle was
serious, expensive and long continued,
but the result was complete triumph
eff the indomitable pluck of the settler,
who saw in the fleet footed future the
building of great and goodly city in
this fairest of fair lands. with its beau.
teous surroundings OF hill and mountain
and its delicious air that brought
strength aud health to the feeble and
the sick.
Their endurance, their industry aud
dozen cheap board houses of small
dimensions Of 1874 in that favored spot
have all given place to costly residences
of taste and elegance, and the great
plain which used to be the ceursing
ground with hounds for hares and
other game, and was the dread of the
frontier settler with his ten-acre Or
chard and his little garden, is now a
great settlement; a city situated amid
all that nature can create of beauty and
that in profusion, or art collect to beau
tify the opulent earth, or science gather
and mould into forms of home, and
libraries, and churches, and temples of
magnificence; the residence of thou.
sands of enlightened, happy people, the
scene Of splendor and festivity, and
domestic bliss; all blooming in per.
petual spring, with no 'last rose OF
summer" for there the roses are per-
petual, the fruits continually ripen and
Che laborer has no hindrance from
stress of weather.
Without let or stay the progress of the
city has been onward, and is now pro-
crossing more rapidly than ever. The
population permanen resident there
population in the fifty different boarding
houses and twenty hotels amounts to
several thousands more. From the pro-
gress of the past three years it ia safe to
state that in three years more the popu.
iation OF Pasadena and South Pasadena
will be $4,000.
Manufactures are springng up in
many localities; the culture of fruits is
rewarding and the yield abundant; can
neries, erystallizing works, fruit packing
establishments and dryers are in active
operation, with three immense lumber
factories in constant and crowded action,
are among the manufacturing industries
of that prosperous town. The banking
facilities are conducted by four banks OF
ample capital, with a deposit line of
$1,000, 900.
A hundred stores and shops are doing
a good business, and no one complains of
dull times, even at this season of the
wear, when it is usual to expect lull in
business activity.
Four railways are in course of con-
structiou, and with those chartered and
those already made, will make nine rail-
ways of various kinds in this thriving
passengers of city of loo, 900 people.
The steady investment OF capital In Pasa.
dena continues with increasing volume.
During the past year about W, ,O0O, 600
have been invested in real estate in this
favored place, while the investments in
buildings exceed $4,000, 900. The ex-
pense Of laying water pipe will swell up
to $500, 900. and sidewalks and railway
buildings will make 5000, 900 more.
The new opera house just commenced
will cost 100000, and the buildings
that are to be erected around it will cost
$780, 900 more.
The Pasadena Academy will soon be
completed at an expense of $25, 900, and
the Y, M. G. A. headquarters at $50, 900.
The developments on the south of the
RAYMOND Addition, the Phillips Addi.
tion and the charming park of Oak Knoll
now begun, will amount to $500, 600 in a
few short months. Improvement is Wis
ible on every hand, and arrangements
are being made for the entertainment Of
tourists during the coming twelve
month. In 1886 and the winter of '87 it
is estimated that $4,000 guests were
entertained In the hotels and boarding
houses of Pasadena, and in 1887 and the
winter of '88 it is calculated that $4,000
guests will apply for place of rest in
this charming spot. With this prospect
in view large number of buildings will
be prepared to welcome the coming
guests.
A delusion has prevailed that tourists
to California would mainly come in the
winter, but that idea is exploded by the
fact that the excursions still continue in
full force. one or two arriving
every week. with arrangements
for a continuance of the bust.
ness during all the summer. Trav.
aIers have now ascertained that the |
summer delights of Southern California
are equal to those of the winter, and
the seaside and the mountains are more
attractive in summer than in winter.
This fact is spreading far and wide, and
il is at no distant day when hotels on